Lil B vs Chief Keef vs Lil Wayne: Who Was The Most Influential Rapper Of The 2010s?

[Sad Bunny]

Also Future not getting enough mentions in here.

Lil Wayne is the foundation for everyone future really did introduced trap singing auto-tune whatever you want to call it future and my opinion is top five most influential of all time.

But future literally built a career off of what Lil Wayne was doing

 

[Chris Cool]

Lil Wayne is the foundation for everyone future really did introduced trap singing auto-tune whatever you want to call it future and my opinion is top five most influential of all time.

But future literally built a career off of what Lil Wayne was doing

I said that though. This other nikka keep tryna bring t pain into the convo.

 

[Sad Bunny]

I said that though. This other nikka keep tryna bring t pain into the convo.

People need to just forget about T-Pain I'm sorry but everyone didn't want to start doing auto-tune until Lil Wayne did lollipop let's be real here


Of course he pain brought it back to the mainstream but besides Lil Wayne in 2006 and 2007 I didn't hear many other artists using it until after lollipop

 

[Budda]

No it isn’t. Nobody in NYC raps like Keef and Keef wasn’t the only drill rapper.

If we being real Herb has more influence on the modern NY sound because the DJ L style of drill beat is the backbone of the production and you can hear Herb in the deliveries of rappers like Envy Caine and early Desiigner.

Then you got Durk who influenced all the young melodic nikkas out the city along with A-Boogie. U can hear their influence in rappers like Lil Tjay, J.I., Stunna Gambino, Jay Gwuapo, etc.

Keef as usual gets way more credit than he deserves and everyone else in the drill movement gets forgotten.

And that’s not to say Keef isn’t influential but damn nikkas drag it.

Every rapper from Chicago even the oops have said if not for Keef no one cares about that city lol.

Plus it’s more than aesthetic, Durk is influential but it took some time for him to get buzzing like that, and he also benefitted from the light Keef shone on the city.

Apart from that



Songs like this are the mini blueprint for the Uzi verts of this generation.

On the low also I remember a time when a host of rappers were biting Reese flow, it definitely just not Keef.

 

[Alvin]

With the 2010s I would say chief keef, thug/future, migos, drake, weeknd

but before that Wayne, Soulja boy, lil b, gucci

 

[Alvin]

Y’all also need to put walks flocka in this conversation more, walks walked so sosa could run, sosa just put the name on drill

 

[How Sway?]

Y’all also need to put walks flocka in this conversation more, walks walked so sosa could run, sosa just put the name on drill

no

 

[Alvin]

I'd say out of the list mentioned. Wayne, Keef and Lil B. But hip hop is so broad that they all have their hand in different parts.

Lil B definitely influenced with the repetitive kinda "dumbed down" intentionally outlandish lyrics.

Keef really crushed the buildings when he came through with Don't Like. I mean a bunch of nikkas in a kitchen with guns is almost the standard rap video nowadays (unfortunately)

But Wayne has the most to me. I mean hip hop Thug's career is basically his verse on Can't Believe It


He influenced Thug and Thug influenced the entire generation of melodic rappers

But quiet as kept though. Lil Durk man

Alot of people don't talk about Durk in terms of his influence but Durk really is the father of these "pain melody" piano beat rappers





Durk DNA in all these nikkas

Yeah but duel sound like future/thug with that sing rap shyt which in turn they got from Wayne

 

[Alvin]

Gates and Quan also have an underrated impact

Yeah also from the lil Wayne tree

 

[Alvin]

no

Lol GBE/Chop called it drill, but flocka/sizzle/lex Luger were making that sound in 08-09

 

[Alvin]

Is wayne really a 2010s rapper?

Tough choice between lil b and keef.

lil b broke down boundaries. Keef created the format and image.

Keef is probably more influential, but we wouldn't be possible without lil b.

Edit: Felt I needed to add Soulja Boy in here. Lil B get all the credit for the work soulja boy started.

Very true about S beezy but like ye, Wayne, and gucci he was influential in the late aughts.

 

[How Sway?]

Lol GBE/Chop called it drill, but flocka/sizzle/lex Luger were making that sound in 08-09

no. "drill" came from underground chicago dudes like pac man, fatzmack and King louie.

Chief keef was just the biggest rapper to emerge from that scene

I mean I'm not gonna act like keef was not mimicking flocka ,( I even mentioned it earlier here) But dudes were making that type of music way before flocka even became a mainstream artist.

 

[Alvin]

Ya'll love talking this influence angle and don't know the first thing about it. For one, Lil' B was an Internet troll who trolled his way into a cult following. Most of what he was doing was already being done by Wayne or Gucci.

As for Chief Keef, Flockaveli is basically the template for that whole style.

I feel like after 2014 people have forgotten flocka and that’s sad to me.

 

[noumena]

But those of us in the know understand that 808's didn't "father" autotune.

Clones is one aspect of influence. It isn't the end all, be all. Influence in its totality is to alter, shift, or change something.

If this isn't the most goalpost movingest shyt I've ever seen in my life. You basically said influence isn't influence, except in my subjective parameters that change whenever I want. What is influence if not emulation? I gave Kid cudi an influential streak through his emotion in his songs not even his sound. Kanye simply hasn't been that influential in this past decade no matter how many people force it. He might have made being a regular dude cool but even that isn't cool anymore seeing as how the game is filled with drugged out weirdos.

 

[noumena]

Yeah that portamento dub bass That was also in a lot of old grime tracks.

But thats it.

nope

The booth been extremely quiet about NYC Drill Rap Wave

Okay I hear it with this one. Good post breh.